LETTER: Don’t let blind partisanship blind you to the facts

Friday

Nov 30, 2012 at 12:01 AMNov 30, 2012 at 9:19 PM

During the vice presidential debate, most Americans were completely caught off guard by Joe Biden’s hilarious, comedic routine while making a mockery of the American debate process. During Biden’s rude, arrogant, condescending act, he actually said some important things that not everyone may have caught:

1. “Well, we weren’t told they wanted more security again.” Biden lied about the fact that the administration, specifically, the State Department, had been told again and again that security on the ground in Libya, and in Benghazi in particular, was inadequate.

2. “What we did is we saved $716 billion and put it back (applied it to Medicare).” Biden repeated the lie the Obama administration has been telling since before Obamacare passed in 2010. Truth is that the $716 billion taken out of Medicare is being used to fund Obamacare.

3. “It came from this man voting to put two wars on a credit card. I was there. I voted against him.” Biden actually voted for both the Iraq and the Afghanistan wars. He did not vote for George W. Bush’s plan to extend coverage of Medicare to prescription drugs nor did he vote for the Bush tax cuts.

4. “No religious institution, Catholic or otherwise has to be a vehicle to get contraception in any insurance policy they provide. That is a fact.” Truth is the Obama administration is forcing religious institutions to provide contraceptive and abortion drugs through their insurance policies. This is the reason several dozen religious institutions are presently suing the administration to defend their First Amendment freedom of religion.

5. “No, they are not four years closer to a nuclear weapon.” Iran is indeed four years closer to a nuclear weapon. The Obama administration, believing it knows better that its predecessors in the White House, has tried to settle this matter with diplomatic talk. Do you really think Iran will disband its nuclear weapons effort if we promise to be nice to them?

6. “The congressman here cut embassy security in his budget of $300 million below what we asked for.” Truth is that Biden’s lie about Ryan’s budget was an attempt to dodge responsibility for the lax embassy security that resulted in four lives being lost in Libya recently. Ryan’s proposal called for a 19 percent overall decrease in non-defense discretionary spending. The Obama campaign made up that number by applying the 19 percent across the board.

7. “You know, I heard that death panel argument from Sarah Palin. It seems that every vice-presidential debate, I hear this kind of stuff about panels.” Truth is Biden’s cheap shot against Palin was an attempt to diminish both her and the man sitting across from him. Sarah Palin never talked about “death panels” in her debate with Biden. Obamacare had not yet been proposed. Nor did Ryan mention anything about “death panels.” Ryan simply addressed the fact that Obamacare proposes to set up a non-elected board to impose cost controls of Obamacare.

8. “Just let the taxes expire like they’re supposed to on those millionaires. Truth is Biden’s “millionaires” are actually any household earning more that $250,000 a year, which includes many middle-class families with two income earners, and small business owners who must report business earnings as personal income.

9. “The president has met with Bebe (Netanyahu) a dozen times.” Truth is while they have met several times, not a dozen times, that includes a meeting at which Obama actually made the Israeli prime minister enter the White House through a back entrance, refused to take a picture with him, and left him on his own for dinner.

10. “With all due respect, that’s a bunch of malarkey, not a single thing he said is accurate.” Truth is that Biden was doing his best to paint Paul Ryan as a liar, when Biden, in fact, was the one lying.

Wise up people. Look at the facts about this situation and stop letting blind partisanship blind you !